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The Caning of Charles Sumner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

The Caning of Charles Sumner

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-03
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

A signal, violent event in the history of the United States Congress, the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor embodied the complex North-South cultural divide of the mid-nineteenth century. Williamjames Hull Hoffer's vivid account of the brutal act demonstrates just how far the sections had drifted apart and explains why the coming war was so difficult to avoid. Sumner, a noted abolitionist and gifted speaker, was seated at his Senate desk on May 22, 1856, when Democratic Congressman Preston S. Brooks approached, pulled out a gutta-percha walking stick, and struck him on the head. Brooks continued to beat the stunned Sumner, forcing him to the ground and repeatedly striking him even...

The Short Life and Violent Times of Preston Smith Brooks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

The Short Life and Violent Times of Preston Smith Brooks

Although he was a central figure in one of the seminal events of American history, the May 1856 “Caning” of Senator Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks remains largely a forgotten figure, one in whom even professional historians have shown little interest. However, while Preston Brooks remains, as described by one historian, “an obscure and enigmatic individual”, there is no denying his place in history. The “Caning of Sumner” was one of the most notorious incidents of the nineteenth century, one that not only inflamed the passions of both North and South but rapidly hastened the process of disunion. As a principal actor in that event, Preston Brooks warrants a greater degree of histo...

Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 650

Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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How to Raise an Intuitive Eater
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

How to Raise an Intuitive Eater

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-01-04
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Children are born intuitive eaters in a society where diet culture dominates. Parents are concerned about how to best feed their children, and nearly everyone is offering solutions on how to tackle the childhood obesity epidemic. But these solutions miss the most important thing: a healthy relationship with food. The absence of this healthy relationship can lead to disastrous consequences: weight cycling, low self-esteem and eating disorders can result from this fear-based approach to food that has become the norm for us all. How to Raise an Intuitive Eater is a compassionate guide for parents to help improve the health, happiness and wellbeing of their children. Based on their experiences working with parents and children, Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson understand that parents want their kids to live their best lives in the bodies they were born to have.

Speech... on the Difficulty of Messrs. Brooks and Sumner and the Cause Thereof
  • Language: en

Speech... on the Difficulty of Messrs. Brooks and Sumner and the Cause Thereof

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1856
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 650

Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Crime Against Kansas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 40

The Crime Against Kansas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1856
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Speech delivered in the Senate condemning the Southern expansion of slavery and the force used in compelling Kansas to be a slave state. In the course of the speech, Sumner ridicules South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler.

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns!Emeritus Harvard Professor David Herbert Donald traces Sumner's life in this Pulitzer-Prize winning classic about a nation careening toward Civil War.

The Caning of Senator Sumner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

The Caning of Senator Sumner

In May of 1856, when Southern Congressman Preston S. Brooks caned Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, he shocked the nation and shattered the fragile truce that had existed between North and South. Part of the American Stories series, Benson's book introduces students to this key turning point in the coming of the War and as one of the most pivotal moments in American history. Because its story incorporates so many of the era's key issues like slavery and abolition, personal liberty laws and state rights, "Bleeding Kansas" and territorial expansion, ideals of gender and manhood, competing visions of labor and the economic order, and the revolutionary shift between the W...